Ceropegia galeata (H. Huber)
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| distribution:
Kenya: Kilifi District, Kwale District / Coast Province |
| This species has very beautiful, conspicuous flowers. Their lower part is baloon-like swollen, white with several light brown spots, the flower-tube is quite short and broadened upward, it is also white and usually has some brown spots in the upper part. The petals are united to a kind of pagoda-roof, thei are white with brown spots on the outside and corn-yellow on the inside, moreover thei are fringed with brown lash-like hair. |
| References: - P. G. Archer: Kenya Ceropegia Scrapbook. Notes and records of some Kenya Ceropegia. Hobart (AUS): Artemis Pup. Consultans. 1992 |